Ah, spoofs are great. (Hence Journal title).

You know, in three days, it will have been a year since my cat Twig died. :C

*sigh* That's why I'm feeling miserable while writing this, because its also raining a lot.

I'm having my b/f over today, so that should cheer me up (:

& By the way, I think I want to be a comic book artist when I grow up. It just... appeals to me. Greatly. I LOVE creating characters, plots ... I could work on plots a lot more, but comics don't involve an awful lot of writing. They involve choice words which get the point across... in as little space as possible. Vibrant fun action filled pics... but then again, I would also have to work on my backgrounds.

I mean like, hero-villain comics, not funny comics. Although they probably will be a bit funny sometimes.

What do you think? I don't know whether I should put it up here or not, or on like a freewebs site or something... thoughts, please?

xx

Im still alive, dont worry x3

I'm gonna try a comic soon... it might not be very good XD

One thing I've noticed is people say "ooh she's Schizophrenic" or "I've got Schizophrenia! There's two sides to me!"

-.-
People should read sometimes, y'know?

REALLY annoys me when people call multiple personality disorder Schizophrenia. IT IS NOT SCHIZOPHRENIA.

I will now proceed to distinguish between the two -

- Schizophrenia is is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood.

Basically ITS THE ONE WHERE THEY HEAR VOICES IN THEIR HEADS. THESE VOICES ARE USUALLY TRYING TO PLOT AGAINST THEM, MAKE THEM DO BAD THINGS OR ARE TELLING THE AFFLICTED PERSON THAT THEY'RE GOING TO COME AND KILL THEM.

I do thank wikipedia for that the first paragraph on Schizophrenia (:

- Multiple personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness in which a single person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. The diagnosis requires that at least two personalities routinely take control of the individual's behavior with an associated memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetfulness; in addition, symptoms can not be due to substance abuse or medical condition. Earlier versions of DID were named the condition multiple personality disorder (MPD).
They call it DID these days (Dissociative Identity Disorder)

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I really hope that clears some stuff up with you all. Its one of my pet hates/major gripes. ;///

It does say in the page about Schizophrenia that the two can often be confused in popular culture but I think someone really needs to clear this up... its like disability, you'll always get kids says "err, spaz" or "err, retard" but people shouldn't joke about those things. The people who really are retarded can't help it and have to live with the fact that their IQ is really really low, infact they probably can't comprehend the fact that it is. The people who have regular seizures (spastic attacks or whatever) have to live with that. Seizures are a symptom of many serious illnesses. :/

And its the same with Schizophrenia and DID. They're serious mental illnesses. People shouldn't offhandedly refer to them or 'claim' that they are afflicted with it. If they really have been, they wouldn't go round blabbing it to all the world. They'd have been diagnosed properly by a doctor.

Sorry I just really needed to rant about that today. >_<

I just wanted to say, to all of you who still have your pets (especially cats) ... well, make sure you spend as much time as you want to with them, even if they've got worms/fleas/scabbyskin/disabilities/are old/annoying.

Because until they're gone you never really ... realize how much they truly mean to you.
Every single day I wish I could hold my Twiggy, but he's not there to hold. I want him on my lap, the dog as a substitute isn't quite the same, heh... I regret after we got the dog I didn't spend as much time with him - she was a pup and ... I don't know... I feel guilty for it. He might have been roaming around the house most of the time but ... :/ eh, I miss him, basically. Him in his physical form - and his spiritual form has yet to pay me a visit! I think he must be busy doing whatever cat spirits do in the spiritworld

So just... treat them like best friends. Pets and animals (when they trust you) love you no matter what happens.

*sings* when you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you... Avril Lavigne. Stop making your lyrics so fitting to my mood. *hate face*